Which names are would you consider 'too posh/try-hard/odd' to be used?

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Having seen a few names pop up which, when read out to my office colleagues, have caused great hilarity, I was wondering which names poeple on MN generally consider too posh/try hard/odd to be passed off in RL. I absolutely love Arabella but have been told that DH and I aren't posh enough to use it :( Ditto Lucinda.

I have to admit I did laugh at Mungo. Sorry to any Mungos/parents of Mungos out there!

Oh my god!!!!

Call your children whatever you wish...who really gives a monkeys if it's 'posh, try-hard' etc etc..if you love it then go for it. IMO

I'm posh and I have the most boring normal name in the whole world. Not Scarlet (btw) in the end I don't think it really matters.

I have a very 'posh' friend who, despite enormous old money wealth, drives around in a ten year old beaten up Volvo, and has two children called Peter and Lucy. I asked her once, was she tempted by the more unusual names? She laughed and said, Oh, all of that is far too complicated for us!

Am really not trying to offend here (which is a sure bet I'm about to say something that will offend someone) but genuine question...I haven't read the entire thread but from the first few pages a girls name that cropped up is Candida. But isn't this a fungal overgrowth in the gut? Why would people use it as a name if this is the case?

My dad's family is pretty posh (no money, just breeding and education:) ). Names include:

Saville
Aylmer
Arlingham (my grandpa, LOVE this name!)
d'Arcy (the PROPER spelling!)
Windham

My dad's best friend (from Rutland, obviously, and a LOVELY man) is called Bartle Grimstone :) Those are his forenames. But these weren't try hard names then, just family names passed down. If it wern't for DH i'd have some of these names because I love my family! DH doesn't so much!

The only Candida I know was very posh but left college after a term to 'travel' - she ended up as a 'traveller' with a smack addiction She still sounds very posh though .....

Bunty is try-hard?

Mia seems to me as run-of-the-mill as Ellie.

I had a great aunt Clytemnestra, always called Sissy.

Bartie Grimstone is a great name, just fab!

I was a school with a chap who gloried in the name COSMO LUSH!

breeding!? oh stop it Hyacinth!

What do you think of the name Hyacinth. I was helping in a nursing home and a man (who had been a gardener when he was younger) had called his daughter Hyacinth... because it was the sweetest smelling flower in the garden! He seemed so proud of such an excellent name choice for his daughter. It made me like the name more. (because I am trying not to think boookay boookay)

I find it funny people could see Rex as anything other than a dog's name!

Ruff ruff - did someone call me - ruff ruff!

Leave poor old lockets DS alone!

Sorry

Why do names HAVE to go one way or the other though!? I loved the name Bruno for my son, and Sadie for my dd. (not the end choices but still).

MOST names could be cats names or dogs names. Unless you say something like Peter or Jane.

yeah Lockets, don't bother. I see my children's names trashed here from time to time but I say nothing. I laughed once, somebody started a thread about my son's name, and another poster cut and pasted about four lines of no no no no no no. I chuckled at that.

I have a vv boring name and wish my parents had been braver so im all for 'different' names.

Ones not already mentioned i can think of:

Aphrodite
Bronte
Austen
Petula
Perpetua
Violetta
Seraphina
Calista
Deandra
Euphemia
Philamina
Henrietta
Isadora
Laurel
Ophelia
Winnie

Bryce
Giles
Forbes
Byron
Cecil
Cedric
Dougal
Earnest
Horace
Indigo
Leander
Mason
Morris
Marcel
Nelson
Orion
Orson
Orwell
Orville
Phillipe
Simeon
Royston
Timothy
Tobias
Tioram
Gabriel
Finnegan
Verne
Heathcliff
Winston
Wallace
Xavier
Yves
Zeus

My middle name would have been Rex had I been a boy. My mum still loves it and keeps suggesting it to me for my little boy in utero. I don't think of it as a dog's name tbh. My childhood dogs were called Jack, Angus and Lucinda - all 3 names mentioned on this thread not in reference to dogs! I don't think of these names as dog's names either, they just happened to be my dogs' names! Fwiw, I plan to call my future dog Harry - favourite boy's name I was unable to use because it sounds awful with our surname - I'm sure plenty of people name their dogs things that they couldn't use for their children for whatever reason.

DS1 has a Rex in his class at school and I feel sorry for the poor fellow.

Yep, your child your choice of name, but it's not fair to plump for something that will probably cause them problems.

Araminta...the mother dinosaur in a book that DS has.